Building with GitHub Copilot

Copilot Coding Agent: An Autonomous Developer

When Copilot is assigned to an issue, it becomes a coding agent that can work on the issue autonomously. This is called the "Copilot Coding Agent". However, the point is, you can ask the Copilot Coding Agent to work on any task in a repository, not just the issues assigned to it. The main difference between the Agent you can instruct in the chat interface and the Copilot Coding Agent is that the latter can work autonomously and asynchronously on a different branch and in a GitHub Actions-powered environment. You could say, this is like having a team of autonomous developers working on your project.

You can do this from the GitHub Agents page. You'll find a chat interface where you can ask Copilot to do any task you want.

For example, you can ask it to add a new feature to your application:

Add a module to my application that converts csv to json.

Find and fix bugs in your code:

Find any potential bugs in the code and fix them.